Join us as Professor Samuel Kassow illuminates life in the Lodz Ghetto with two back-to-back fascinating lectures: “What was Different About the Lodz Ghetto?” and “Culture in the Lodz Ghetto: Reportage Photography and Poetry”.
Afterwards, seminar attendees can visit our new special exhibition, «Memory Unearthed: The Lodz Ghetto Photographs of Henryk Ross.»
When Henryk Ross was confined to the Lodz Ghetto in Poland in 1940, he was put to work by the Nazi regime as a bureaucratic photographer for the Jewish Administration’s Statistics department. Ross risked his life to secretly document the horrors and complexities of life in the Lodz Ghetto. «Memory Unearthed» reveals more than 200 of Ross’s extraordinary photographs, supplemented by artifacts, testimony, and presented in the context of Lodz Ghetto history.
This event is FREE, but registration is required.
For more information, please contact Paul Radensky, Assistant Director of Education, at pradensky@mjhnyc.org or 646-437-4310.